(September 29, 2010 at 11:11 am)Scott Richens Wrote: How do you define fate and how would you separate it from religion?
I, personally, don't think there's any bloody difference... apart from how it's a shit load more subtle. I've noticed a few of my apatheist friends are fixated with fate and how it governs their lives. Apatheism, of course, is the name for people who don't give a fuck about anything to do with God and religion and what it means to them. Yet some find meaning in something else; Fate.
Do they also read their horoscopes, that is a sticky superstition isnt it.
The fact is people see patterns where none exists, they mistake coincidences for fate and or divine plans.
(Divine plans would seem to contradict free will but never mind.)
So once again we find religion and superstition being remarkably similar I wonder why?
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
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